Push the button?

Firstly, I love Everton but last night I got that feeling I have felt before a few times but probably more strongly that ever. Generally when the pain is just so unbearable and I am angrier than a vengeful God.
If there was a button to switch Everton off, would you push it?

Some examples for me are:

? Losing to Portsmouth at home three-nil after a similar summer to the one we have just had.
? Hull away a couple of years ago.
? 4-0 away at Arsenal in 98.

I just think life is full of problems and quite frankly supporting Everton at the moment is like being a heroin addict but without the highs. I?m 28 and I cannot remember a time when I felt so little optimism for the future. We have had worse teams, sure... but I can?t remember a time when we have had so little prospects.

Philip, it's all part of being a Evertonian, take the rough with the smooth.Who knows what the season has in store for us, I know it looks rather gloomy, but keep the faith.If the players showed as much faith in the supporters, as vice versa, then we may be pleasantly surprised come next May.

Philip, it's all part of being a Evertonian, take the rough with the smooth.Who knows what the season has in store for us, I know it looks rather gloomy, but keep the faith.If the players showed as much faith in the supporters, as vice versa, then we may be pleasantly surprised come next May.

Well we seem to be reaching new lows every week. A negative followed by negative followed by negative. We seem to be stooping to lower lows BUT one day, when that is I don't know there will be a positive and something will change - for the better. Right now we must keep taking the punches, but one day we certainly will dish them out strong and hard!!!

The Tranmere game, the 5-0 home defeat to the RS when Postman Pat scored 4 (otherwise known as the Glenn Keeley game), and the capitulation in Bucharest just a few weeks after losing to Villareal and the 4-0 defeat to WBA a few years back

Almost 50 years ago to the day I made my debut as an eight year old in the Boy's Pen. We got stuffed four nil by Sheffield Wednesday. I was hooked.That which doesn't kill you will make you stronger. As Hibbo might say.

Getting stuffed 5-1 away to Sheff Wed then two days later getting stuffed 3-0 at home to Blackburn back in '94 was fairly devastating. I was at both games. At Hillsborough my dad and I were in our seats about an hour and forty minutes before kick off. Convincing ourselves that we would "turn it on today".

When Catterick sold Alan Ball out of the blue was another terrible day. Grown men cried at the time.I loved Arteta and am sick hes gone, but not to the same extent as I was when I got home from school and found out about Bally.

Losing 2-1 to West Ham in the FA Cup Semi Final Replay at Leeds. The only reason there was a second match was because Brian Kidd got himself needlessly sent off in the first game when we were winning 1-0.

Or losing 3-2 to Aston Villa in the League Cup Final second replay at Old Trafford.

When Bally went to Arsenal I cried for a week, as a man I cried when Dunc left to go to Newcastle but ......I cried my eyes out and very nearly killed myself when I found out that Big Vic was given a new contract.

I well remember the Kroldrup debut at Villa. Sat in the middle of the Holte End (my best mate is a Villa fan and we always have the rule that he sits with our fans at GP and me with theirs at the Villa), freezing my wotsits off, watching us getting smashed 4-0 and having to pretend to be happy about it for fear of having my head kicked in!

I seem to recall we lost the derby here to Liverpool a few days after as well and were more or less bottom of the table by then. Not a good week!

Without wanting to ruin my weekend and that of others its got to be 1986 FA Cup Final, 1-0 up at half-time and a complete capitulation in the second half by Stevens, Mimms et al to hand the dark-side the double, ooouch that hurt !

Has to be the Villa second replay after the high of Latchford scoring in the last minute at Hillsborough. The Boro 3-0 cup game that got Walter sacked takes some beating also and every derby defeat. Shouls start a thread about the best moments, Latchford in the Villa 1st replay and the Gosling goal will live long in the memory.

Getting beat 1-0 by man u in 85 when we were on for the treble. the 0-5 by the RS when I was surrounded by all my RS mates. The Milk cup final at main Road after we'd bossed the game at wembly...in fact how long have you got.

It's all part and parcel of supporting any team at the end of the day, every side has it's high and lows, can you imagine an Arsenal forum on sunday night after that extraordinary game, it would surely be a variation of what we have here, sort of reminiscing about past games etc.

this club has had it's share of embarrassments and ultimate letdowns, I remember vividly after the Reading F.A cup fixture a year or two ago how angry I felt at such an opportunity to progress was wasted and you can add that to the other half dozen or so exits to lower league or caliber oppositon down the years.

I remember something similar with a home game with Portsmouth in the League cup eons ago and the club went on to November without winning a league game, fortunes reversed, and we went on not only to avoid a almost seemingly relegation but added the F.A. cup to our honors list by end of season.

I remember the 6-2 Villa game. Cottee scored a screamer right at the end of the game, quite possibly the cleanest strike he ever put in for us. When the camera cut to him he just looked gutted. Beardo then wandered over to tell him it would all be alright, it was nearly over. Awful game. 6-2 to Graham offing Taylor.

For me it has to be the 86 cup final. We should have won the league that year and threw it away for the RS to steal it., nly to top it off by capitulating in the cup final after dominating in the first half. I was on suicide watch that evening!

I played 5 a side the next day and I was the only Blue - they made it hell for me and I have to admit I lost it and engaged in a Van Den Hauwe spree of violence against the opposition.